Enhance your knowledge of Greenlandic culture and history on a walk through Ilulissat. The town is of prime historical significance to Greenland. Founded as a trading post by the Danes in 1741, Ilulissat today is Greenland´s third-largest city with more than 4,500 inhabitants.

On the walk, a guide will tell you about the history of the city, Greenlandic culture and the nature of modern life some 300 km north of the Arctic Circle. We will visit fishermen at the harbour and hunters at the trading post “Brædtet”. You will also see the house where famous Greenlandic/Danish polar explorer and anthropologist Knud Rasmussen was born.